shirgall

Could be a generation thing. I was looking for love in all the wrong places 20 years ago and got married 11 years ago. Had my share of women that complained about PUAs and how they lose interest and move on but these same gals didn't want to date me. Not a happy time.

You may be the only PUA to want a woman, virtuous or not, to love them. All the PUAs I knew wanted a woman's lust, and would only seek love if the woman had some guts (which, I guess, is a description of virtue).

It was a race to see who would say "compared to what?" first... except we all missed the opportunity.

You can add "available" as a further tightening of supply, be it because of logistics of travel, or merely because only so many people want to sell it at the moment, rather than use it for something. Efficiency hates inventory, but wild fluctuations in supply create scarcity.

Monica's recent shenanigans reinforce my impression that Hillary (and Bill) at that time were coldly calculating the path forward with the greatest political advantage. I question the timing.

Some bozo filed a fake return for me this year. Got himself a nice refund, and it was taken to pay some of my back taxes. And the money he stole was from the government... but it's me that has to do the police report and FTC complaint and leg work... It feels kinda ironic. Someone stole from the government in my name, and it's up to me to clear it up.

The worst argument either group makes is "I'm totally different than the other guy."

This is citing facts not in evidence. "Incompatible" compared to lions? We coexist with species all over the planet, We manipulate our environment to the benefit of useful species and to the detriment to less useful species. The planet doesn't care. The house cats and otherwise-braindead labrador retrievers approve. The more icky bugs are having a bad millenium. This is not a destruction of the biosphere, it is merely a modification of it. The world has not become a lifeless desert, nor is it likely to. In fact, increased CO2 is bringing plant food levels up, but is still quite a bit less than previous levels of lush plant growth.

My theory is that abused people have more empathy for creatures who are wholly dependent on themselves for life, versus distrusting of those who are independent enough to abuse people. In fact, "apathetic to" might be better terminology than "distrusting of".

You can still open the feed in beyondpod and download new episodes, and there is a way to reverse the order in beyondpod. However, because I watch the youtube videos sometimes, I like to pick and choose what I download instead of doing it automatically, so I have not played with automatic downloads. If I could automatically download videos, i would be in heaven.

Indeed, there are distinctions in homicide (which vary a GREAT DEAL depending on jurisdiction): coldly planning and carrying out the death of another: murder in the first degree deliberately killing another, unplanned: murder in the second degree doing something unsafe that is likely to result in the death of another that does result in a death: manslaughter doing something unsafe that is likely to result in the death of another that does not result in a death: reckless endangerment (still a felony) deliberately killing another, unplanned, in defense of oneself or the innocent: justifiable homicide (not a crime, requires a positive defense, which switches the burden of proof to the defendant) doing something that a reasonable and prudent person would do yet somehow results in the death of another: excusable homicide (not a crime, requires a positive defense which switches the burden of proof to the defendant) committing some other other crime which leads to a death: felony murder (the best example of this that shocks people is when you are your buddy rob the liquor store, the liquor store owner shoots and kills your buddy, and you go up for felony murder) Welcome to the moral continuum of murder. It's not a bichromatic enterprise. In the world of plea deals, sometimes people do time for a crime they didn't commit, because they agreed to be downgraded from some other crime which matched exactly, but had a higher penalty.

You asked a pretty darn vague question. Without context, any advice is pretty silly. Here's my advice: listen to every post in manager-tools.com, including the career tools podcasts and interviewing series.

The mechanism that is creating the monopolies is government regulation, esp. their intention to make it a utility. The next step is metering so that more you use the net, the more it costs.

Against Abrahamic religious extremism, at least.

When two quantities meet (a+b)/a = a/b Another one is "He who has the gold makes the rules". Oops, I see someone already said it and I missed it on first scan.

Unfortunately there's no scientific basis for MBTI conclusions, but is just as accurate as any Cosmopolitan personality or boyfriend test for predicting you'll get into a fight with your significant other before the night is over. http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/Articles/develop/mbti.pdf

Overlooking the driving forces of creation that I already listed to drop to least common denominator is just as incoherent as the statement I first critiqued.

This is incomprehensible in that you are claiming two concepts are congruent because they share the same root word. Human beings have amazing pattern matching engines, called brains, that have been tuned over billions of years to recognize changes in the environment and identify them as threats or opportunities. A side-effect of amazing pattern matching capability, and the ability to manipulate our environment, leads to the ability to create objects that evoke reactions in others by communicating with those patterns or that solve real-world problems. Equating this ability with the creation of the universe is not a logical step. That the universe churns and creates things is not at all congruent with human action.

Did you know most of the people working for McDonald's make more than minimum wage? Also, there are plenty of other jobs besides fast food that pay minimum: unskilled cashiers at stores, unskilled restockers at stores, lifeguards, ski patrol, casino dealers, models, manicurists, pedicurists, dishwashers, bus boys, unskilled laborers, and on and on... Yet minimum wage workers are less than 5% of the population, because once you get some experience that can be put on a resume, or some useful skills that have some margin of scarcity, a worker's value to a prospective company increases. The people that make a lot of money are ones that risks a lot of money, work, or time on some project that has a significant chance of failure. Opening a McDonald's and keeping it open, stocked, and staffed is not free, and no one is forced to eat there.

It always galls me that what they obviously don't understand is that in capitalist systems the oil wealth would be shared with all people, as the people who pull the oil out of the ground and sell it would spend that money on goods and services. The difference is who controls where the money goes.

My point was that people can be incredibly rude right in your face. It used to be proximity lead to politeness, but that really hasn't been my experience for the last decade.

Because emotion is what is manipulated to give others control of our lives. It is a useful tool but a fearful master.

I was trying to boil "what happens when you die" to what the real underlying question is, which is "what do you feel when you can't feel anymore." I went too far, and it was unclear. Sorry. I seldom talked about religion with my parents as well... but we did get into things like "how can i tell if what I experience is the same as what you do" and things like that. (Only now do I realize what a request for empathy that was.)

But the question was about the existence of god, not what is essentially "what do you feel when you can't feel anymore?" Defining "creativity" as an otherwise undefinable aspect of the Creator is not a reasoning belief.

Don't you just hate how much cultural marxism has set back the human race? People have discovered many many truths, and saved them up so that future generations don't have to rediscover them... but when their items of faith are questioned they resort to crapping all over all of that history to shore up their delusions. Degrading the concept of "truth" only serves those who wish to control others and their fellow travellers.